Research shows continued decline of Oregon's largest glacier

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 20:14 in Earth & Climate

Researchers have returned to Collier Glacier for the first time in almost 20 years and found that the glacier has decreased more than 20 percent from its size in the late 1980s. The findings are consistent with glacial retreat all over the world and provide some of the critical data needed to help quantify the effects of global change on glacier retreat and associated sea level rise.

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